BIB_ID
457721
Accession number
MA 23840.1534
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.4 x 17.2 cm + envelope
Notes
In two parts, dated "Tuesday" and "Wednesday." Date from postmark.
Jhabvala's letter is 3 pages long, in blue ink; text on verso of page [1] consists of casting notes made in red ink, probably in Ivory's hand.
The project being discussed is "Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures" (1978).
Envelope addressed to James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, Umaid Bhavan Palace Hotel, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, postmark only partially legible: February [?], 1978.
Jhabvala's letter is 3 pages long, in blue ink; text on verso of page [1] consists of casting notes made in red ink, probably in Ivory's hand.
The project being discussed is "Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures" (1978).
Envelope addressed to James Ivory & Ismail Merchant, Umaid Bhavan Palace Hotel, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, postmark only partially legible: February [?], 1978.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Telling them she has finished typing the script and is sending it off to them now; entreating them "please don't read this like one of our usual scripts ... I look upon the whole thing as a peg to hang beautiful pictures on-- that each scene should be a beautiful picture..."; providing an addition to a scene in the script; wishing Merchant could come to Delhi, as "this probably being the last time we could all be in this house..."
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